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By Avaneesh Pandey @avaneeshp88 a.pandey@ibtimes.com on June 27 2015 2:39 AM EDT Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid announced on Saturday that authorities would shut down 80 mosques in the country accused of promoting terrorism. Pictured: A broken glass window of the Imperiale Marhaba hotel after a gunman opened fire at the beachside hotel in…

June 21, 2015: Norway, supplied with information on known Islamic terrorists, compared that list with one of the most recent Moslem refugees it had accepted and found at least ten of these asylum seekers had an Islamic terrorist background. Similar discoveries are being made in other countries that accept these refugees via a UN resettlement…

Author: Dr Mary Young Source: Intelligence unit Published: 11 June 2015 Filed: 11 June 2015 The Australian Crime Commission (ACC) released the Organised Crime in Australia 2015 report in May. The biennial report published by the Commission is a detailed and comprehensive review of serious organised crime in Australia. Importantly, the report identifies the…

The foiled terrorist strikes this year are an ugly omen of more to come. By Luke Hunt May 08, 2015 This year was promising to be a particularly brutal one. Islamic militants have increasingly taken their terror campaigns to the streets of major Western cities – Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Charlie Hebdo in Paris,…

March 1, 2015 John Rosenthal His jihadist career has taken on nearly mythical dimensions. According to some reports, he is the mastermind behind Islamic State media operations. According to another, he was recently the target of a “honey-trap” set by a female FBI agent sent to Syria in order to extract information from him.…

Lessons from the Charlie Hebdo Attack By Robin Simcox January 12, 2015 A memorial for the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack, January 10, 2015. (Stephane Mahe / Courtesy Reuters) “If you can kill an American or European infidel, especially the spiteful and cursed French,” said Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, spokesman for the Islamic State of…

The 43-year-old British photographer who was taken hostage in Syria in July 2012 touts the militant group’s rule over Mosul – Iraq‘s second-largest city with more than 2 million people. In the video the captive is forced to refute several media reports of mass murders and repeated human rights violations as he tours a local…